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...Katrina. There is the stench of corruption rising from the Tom DeLay and Jack Abramoff scandals and the appointment of so many hacks and cronies to positions of power. There is the possibility that Karl Rove and other top Administration officials will soon be indicted in the Valerie Plame leak case. There was, and is, the failure to deal head-on with the Iraq war and make the necessary adjustments-more troops, more pressure on the corrupt and Iranophilic government of Ibrahim al-Jaafari-that might secure a better outcome. The higher gasoline prices portend a very expensive home-heating...
...isolated one. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is currently under investigation for allegedly filing false reports with the Federal Elections Commission that failed to accurately indicate how poor the financial condition of his campaign was. Deputy White House Chief of Staff Karl Rove is being investigated for the leak of the identity of a CIA operative to the media. Democrat Thomas Finneran, the former powerful Speaker of the House in Massachusetts, is being investigated for committing perjury when he was questioned about his own aggressive redistricting plan. John Rowland, once the Republican governor of Connecticut, is now serving time...
...cases of the New York Times and TIME journalists both involved the surrender of documents, although under different circumstances. Miller, who never actually wrote a story based on her reporting about the Plame leak, was originally subpoenaed along with the Times. After the newspaper said it had no relevant documents to hand over and that Miller's notes--and the decision whether to turn them over--belonged to her alone, the court pursued only the subpoena against Miller. (The notes she gave up were redacted to omit discussions about anything other than Plame.) In the Cooper case, the prosecutor went...
...leak began from a pipe leading to the toilet in room C-43, letting loose a torrent of water that collapsed some of the House’s ceilings. Maintenance received notification of the problem at 3:43 a.m. on Friday and immediately dispatched staff members, who evacuated students thought to be at risk into the Cabot dining hall...
Lindsay E. Crouse ’06, who lived in room B-31, the hardest-hit room, said the dripping water woke her up around 3:30 a.m. She said she initially assumed that the leak had been caused by a storm, but soon realized that this did not seem reasonable, given the amount of water...